The Prime Minister paid tribute to the emergency services for their work and to those who had lost their lives in the sickening attack.

She said: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to all that have been affected, to the victims themselves and their family and friends who waved their loved ones off but will not now be welcoming them home.”

Mrs May then said those threatening the values of “freedom” and “democracy” were “doomed to failure”.

She said: “Parliament, democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law command the admiration and respect of free people everywhere.

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Theresa May speaks following the London terror attack

“That is why is a target for those who reject those values.”

She continued: “Attempts to defeat those values through violence and terror is doomed to failure.

“Tomorrow morning, Parliament will meet as normal.”

She insisted the British public would continue to remain defiant in the face of the terror threat in London.